My response to the article, “When do students need timeouts?” (Sept. 27) is: “When do students need to sacrifice their learning with disruptive peers?”

Where are the police after midnight on Saturday evenings when I am walking home from work?

Anyone who would claim that any of the recent bills sent to the Senate by the House have any other purpose than to destroy the Affordable Care Act (also called Obamacare) is guilty brazen deceitfulness.

It is no surprise that a bear baiter was operating in the same neighborhood where the bear was spotted (“Trash-marauding bear in Litchfield sparks wardens’ warning,” Sept. 11).

“Most Mainers unaffected by shutdown, unless you’re a federal employee,” states the headline of the Kevin Miller article in the Oct. 1 newspaper. Sounds hopeful, doesn’t it? If we read the article, however, we find that there is a lot more harm done than just to a few federal employees.

I do not belong to any kind of outside political party. Back when President Barack Obama was running for re-election, however, many people had called me to ask who I would vote for.